NUMBER 153

DATE: 04/05/96

Sector Processing Center (SPC):

During February, NOA, JMA, CSU and AES processed greater than 93% of A data into B1/B2 data.

Normal operations for February were reported by NOA, JMA, CSU and AES. No report was received from EUM.

AES reported collecting more than 78% of GOES-8 data in January 96, their first month of full operations. Operations since then have been normal.

Satellite Calibration Center (SCC):

AC data were received for January and February 96 from NOAA-14 and for February 96 from GMS-5, GOES-8 and GOES-9. BC for April and May 95 for METEOSAT-3 and for April, July and October 95 for METEOSAT-5 were shipped to the GPC.

Global Processing Center (GPC):

The GPC continued to receive B2 data, BC data and correlative data in a routine manner.

Production of NOAA-14 (preliminary) B3 is current. Production of final B3 will require normalizing the calibration to the standard, NOAA-9.

Production of NOAA-12 (preliminary) B3 data is current. Final B3 data have been produced through December 94.

Production of GOES-7 (preliminary) B3 data is completed through November 94. Merger of several sources of data beyond November will be required. The last B2 data were obtained in January 96. Final B3 data have been produced through August 94.

GOES-8 B2 data are now being received routinely, but the formatting software has not been written yet.

GOES-9 B2 data are now being received routinely, but the formatting software has not been written yet.

Production of METEOSAT-3 (preliminary) B3 data is completed through January 95. The special CD-ROM datasets sent by ESA for February through April 95 have not been processed yet. Final B3 data have been produced through August 94.

Production of METEOSAT-5 (preliminary) B3 data is current. Final B3 data have been produced through August 94.

GMS-5 B2 data deliveries are current, but formatting software has not been written yet. Production of GMS-4 (preliminary) B3 data is completed through May 95. Final B3 data have been produced through August 94.

Final INSAT-1 B3 has been produced for the period April 88 through March 89.

TOVS correlative data processing has been completed through 95. The revised version of the whole TOVS dataset (July 83 - December 95) will be delivered this month.

Production of the ice/snow correlative dataset has been completed through 94. The revised version of the whole ice/snow dataset (July 83 - December 94) has been delivered.

DX/D1/D2 data production got back on track with the re-processing of the data for January - April 90 to correct the snow data problem. Also, all the data for 92 were replaced. The data for January 90 - December 92 are now complete. Processing of DX/D1/D2 has also been completed for June and July 86.

Several additions have been made to the ISCCP Web page. Now available is a (downloadable) copy of the first of the series of articles about the project that were published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (the others will appear soon). A new feature provides images (and data) that are subsets of the ISCCP DX data corresponding to particular field projects (e.g., FIRE, EUCREX, WENPEX, TOGA-COARE), for the GEWEX regional projects, and cases studies being examined by the GEWEX Cloud System Studies (GCSS). The first datasets are for a GCSS case study. The ISCCP World Wide Web Home Page can be accessed at URL

http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov

ISCCP Central Archive (ICA):

The ICA continued to receive B1 data from NOA, AES, ESA, CSU and JMA and B3 and C data from the GPC in a routine manner.

The health of GMS-5, METEOSAT-5, GOES-8, GOES-9, NOAA-12 and NOAA-14 remained good.

Stage B3: July 83 - June 94 (11.0 years)

Stage CD: July 83 - December 94 (11.5 years)

Stage C1: July 83 - June 91 ( 8.0 years)

Stage C2: July 83 - June 91 ( 8.0 years)

Stage D1: January 90 - December 92 (3.0 years)

Stage D2: January 90 - December 92 (3.0 years)

Delivery backlog for B3 data = 14 months (with respect to planned schedule). B3 data for 132 months have been archived.

Delivery backlog for new DX/D1/D2 data = 32 months (with respect to planned schedule). C1/C2 data for 96 months have been archived. D1/D2 data for 36 months have been archived.